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Re: gnome-pilot anyone?



hazelsct@mit.edu (Adam C Powell IV) writes:

> As we say in New York, "Akhaa!"  The problem seems to be serial 
> permissions: my Debian Intel, PPC and Alpha boxes all have root.dialout 
> 660 for /dev/ttyS*, but the Netwinder has root.root 640.
> 
> Is there a reason for this?  Or is this a makedev bug on ARM alone?

Seems unlikely to be a makedev bug, since it's binary-all at the moment, and 
there's no special per-arch handling of serial ports that I can remember.  

More likely something else poked the permissions?

Bdale



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